Blood on the Moon

This is really just a quick post, but the lunar eclipse last night was SO COOL! It started at about 9ish, and by 10 the Moon was turning this amazing red. I've seen orange moons, I've seen yellow moons, I've seen blue moons, but red is definitely unusual (and also one of the few things about which I'm superstitious). It was beautiful, if sort of creepy (not my pictures).

I heard on the radio yesterday that this was the same eclipse (or type of, I guess) that Columbus used to convince the Jamaicans or some group that it was God's will that they should feed him. Which of course reminded me that Tintin does the same thing with a solar eclipse in Prisoners of the Sun.


- M